Social memory, reputation and the politics of death in the medieval Irish lordship

Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000

Landscape, kingship and religion

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Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of...
Author/Editor: Edel Bhreathnach

The Geraldines and medieval Ireland

The making of a myth

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Geraldines (or FitzGeralds) are the most celebrated of the dynasties established in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; and the dynasty’s most celebrated member during the...
Author/Editor: Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors

Richard II and the Irish kings

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Most late-medieval kings of England showed little interest in their lordship of Ireland. They showed even less interest in the Gaelic Irish population of the island. Richard...
Author/Editor: Darren McGettigan

The Irish Coroner

Death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78

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Coroners who conducted inquests into sudden and suspicious deaths in nineteenth-century Ireland were viewed with disdain and disrespect in a society that was highly politicized and deeply divided....
Author/Editor: Michelle McGoff-McCann

The royal manors of medieval Co. Dublin

Crown and community

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This book is the first full-length study of the royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons (all in south Co. Dublin) in the period 1170...
Author/Editor: Áine Foley

Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540

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This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the cityʼs personalities, and Dublinʼs unwanted...
Author/Editor: Peadar Slattery